"I am not interested in the individual fate of the characters, but in the social conditions that produce such fates."

你唯一应该努力超越的人就是昨天的自己。

锂离子电池对世界产生了非常大的影响。

我感到难过,不是因为你欺骗了我,而是因为我再也不能相信你了。

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

邪恶是善良的人们编造的谎言，用来解释其他人的特殊魅力。

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.